Brackley No. 1

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 has: "The church of St. Peter is an ancient building, with a low embattled tower, and contains a Norman font of curious design: St. James', formerly a parochial church, is now a chapel of ease." [NB: it is possible that the Norman font now at St. John's Chapel may have been in St. Peter's at the time, unless it was a mistake by Lewis]. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) mention the font in the Chapel of St. James, obviously referring to the same location as the CRSBI below: "Circular, Norman, with intersected arches and below them a band of long barbaric trail." The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008), however, remarks that only the basin is medieval, and dates it to ca. 1200. The basin is bucket-shaped, and is decorated with a band of dog-tooth pattern all around the upper rim; the side has a blind arcade of intersecting round arches below which, and, at times, apparently linking with the support-less arches, are acanthus tendrils or vine; the bottom of the side appears to have e moulding, but it is worn and damaged; the base is, as indicated in the CRSBI, modern.